... Egg, just "[a]cross the courtesy bay" from West Egg (p. 10). After getting settled, Nick visits the Buchanans and meets Daisy Buchanan "whom I scarcely knew at all" (p. 11) and Daisy's friend, Jordan Baker. Nick's impression of these two women in particular, as well as the others he encounters during his brief stay in New York, are noteworthy in that they demonstrate the vapidity ... to actually live in a high-class, monied world, a woman had to literally be a fool, or a dolt, because any other self-aware, educated woman would go crazy living the life that Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... careless people. On the contrary, Tom makes baseless judgments that are visible in the following quote. "Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white. (Pg. 130) This quote reveals how ... left alone. But I wanted to leave things in order and not just trust that obliging and indifferent sea to sweep my refuse away I saw Jordan Baker and talked over and around what had happened to us together, and to us together, and what happened afterward to me."" (Pg. 178) ... However,...

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• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School